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溷 combines the water radical 氵 with 圂, a pig inside an enclosure that originally meant pigsty or privy and here supplies the pronunciation. The character evokes filthy water flowing through a pigsty, giving it meanings of muddiness and squalor. It serves as a noun for a latrine or cesspool, and as an adjective describing murky, chaotic, or morally corrupt states, closely overlapping in sense with 混.
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